Low socioeconomic status is associated with prolonged times to assessment and treatment, sepsis and infectious death in pediatric fever in El salvador

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Gavidia, Ronald ^a   Fuentes, Soad L ^a   Vasquez, Roberto ^a   Bonilla, Miguel ^a   Ethier, Marie Chantal ^b   Diorio, Caroline ^b   Caniza, Miguela ^c   Howard, Scott C ^c   Sung, Lillian ^b  

^a Benjamin Bloom National Children's Hospital   (El Salvador)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; METHOTREXATE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EL SALVADOR; FEMALE; FEVER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEUTROPENIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; THERAPY DELAY; TRAVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EL SALVADOR; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; SEPSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84865154875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043639     Document Type: Article

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